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Wow! Some people should not have a hammer or a screw driver or any tool and take on any handy job. At least not without supervision! Our house in Dallas we found all sorts of things wrong, but of course not until after you are living in it do you find many of the things. One huge problem we had was electricity. Apparently, they did some remodeling and spliced the electrical cord and it was shorting out in our walls, we didn't find this out until about 6 months of living in the house. Every other week or so I would come home and the clocks would be all reset like we had had an electrical surge or something. I thought for a long time it was something that they were doing in the neighborhood or area. So I didn't even pay much attention to it. Until one day we came home and had no electricity in half of our kitchen, the half where the fridge was plugged in. So we had to have a big orange electrical cord going from the Living room to the kitchen to keep our fridge running, until we could get somebody in there to fix it. So when they came and fixed it, that is when we found out that when they did the remodeling in the kitchen they did all the electrical wiring wrong and had also spliced right through the cord. So we had sparks going off in our walls and our house could have burned down to the ground. When the electrician told me this I was very upset, but then it also made me remember some things that had happened at our signing.
When we bought the house and signed our life away, the previous owner wouldn't give us our keys for three days. He wanted to wait until his realtor (whom was his sister), was back in town and said it was ok, bcs quote his words 'What if the house burned down, then he did not want to be responsible'. I am hoping that was coincidence, but at the same time it really made me wonder. Especially, since after we finally did get our keys to a house we owned for three days and were not allowed to move into, we started moving in (in the middle of the night). The next morning, I wake up to noises downstairs. I am 4 months pregnos at this time, but I scurry down the stairs to find this strange man in our house. The previous owner still had keys and was showing up to come and get things from the house that he still had not retrieved. I could not believe it, even after not letting us have the keys for three days after signing, he still had not gotten his crap out of the house and was their now trespassing and walking into our house, while we were asleep!
Anyways, I am not sure what my point is except there are some real idiots out there that have no business doing carpenter work. And even after having a house examiner (can't think what they are called right off hand) to point out all the bad things, they don't always catch everything. There were many other things we found along the way, but that was the worst thing of all of it. They also covered up a leak in the back porch, which didn't show up until the rainy season the next year. Oh, and a hole in the wall in one of the bathrooms, they just took drywall tape covered the hole and painted it, without even using puddy to fill in the hole or anything. These are just a few of the idiot things they did or shortcuts they took.
I'm not a fan of AI either.
